Английская Википедия:George W. Schwab
Шаблон:Short description George W. Schwab (1876–1955) was a Presbyterian minister and a missionary. He and his wife Jewel Huester Schwab were appointed to the West Africa Mission in 1905.[1] He also did scientific work in the fields of anthropology and zoology.
Early life and education
George W. Schwab was born in 1876[1] in Clinton, Massachusetts.[2] He graduated from Amherst College for both a Bachelor of Science and a Doctor of Science.[3] He also had a Master of Arts from Harvard University,[3] which he received in 1919.[2]
Career
Missionary
Schwab was a missionary in the West African country of Cameroon.[4] His appointment began in 1905 when the Presbyterian Church of the USA designated him and his wife to its West Africa Mission.[1] By 1922, he was the superintendent of the American Presbyterian Mission Schools.[5] His career as a missionary ended in 1941.[3]
Scientist
For more than thirty years, Schwab was affiliated with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of Harvard University, becoming an Honorary Research Fellow for West Africa.[4] Shortly after officially becoming affiliated with the Peabody Museum in 1918, he collaborated with Earnest Hooton to create a linguistic and tribal map of Africa on behalf of the U.S. Peace Commission.[2] In 1922, he held the Hemenway Fellowship from the Peabody Museum.[5] In 1924, he was appointed a Research Associate in Anthropology for Liberian Ethnology for the Peabody Museum, a position he held until his retirement in 1949.[2]
Schwab collected the holotype of the short-tailed roundleaf bat (Hipposideros curtus) in 1920.[6] He also collected the holotype of a species of rove beetle, Dorylophila schwabi, which was named after him by William Morton Wheeler.[7] Glover Morrill Allen attempted to name a species of dormouse after Schwab, Graphiurus schwabi,[8] but it was determined to be a junior synonym to an existing scientific name, Graphiurus surdus.[9] Additionally, Schwab is presumed the collector of the holotype of a species of fungus of the genus Autophagomyces, A. kamerunensis.[10]
Schwab published two works about his time in Cameroon:[3]
- The Tribes of the Liberian Hinterland
- Field Notes on the Basa Tribe of the Cameroons
Personal life
Schwab was married to Jewel Huester Schwab.[1]
Later life and death
Schwab died on 3 October 1955 in Orlando, Florida at the age of 79.[3]
References
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